ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES — STYLE SHEET

Length:

Recommended length for articles: 5,000-7,000 words (10-12 single-spaced pages including notes and bibliography)

Abstract:

A 100-200 word summary should be included, followed by a list of five to eight key words.

Quotations:

Use double quotation marks (a.k.a. inverted commas) for quotes of four lines or less and single quotation marks for quotes within quotes or for speech within a quotation. When a quotation is four lines or more, it must be indented as a separate paragraph without quotation marks. A quote within an indented quotation requires single quotation marks.

Commas and periods must be placed after the quotation marks, but the symbols for interrogation or exclamation intrinsic to the quote’s meaning should be kept within the quotation marks.

Omissions within quoted text are indicated by a space, three consecutive periods and another space.

References:

References must be made within the text and placed within parentheses containing the author’s surname followed by the date of publication with no comma between them, and the page(s) from which the quotation is taken with a colon and a space between the year of publication and the page number(s): (Barton 2004: 130-147). If the text includes the author's name or the date of publication, that information must not be repeated in the parentheses. When several authors are cited in parenthetical documentation, references should be arranged chronologically and separated by a semicolon: (McLoone 2000; Pettitt 2000; Barton and Harvey 2004)

Works cited:

A list of works cited must be provided at the end of articles. In accordance with the author-date reference system described above, the following format must be observed:

- author’s surname
- first name
- year of publication (no parentheses)
- title of work in italics
- place of publication followed by a colon and a space
- publisher
- pages (if it is an article/chapter)

Examples:

Bowyer Bell, J.. 1969. "Ireland and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939". Studia Hibernica 9. 137-163.

Frye, Northrop. 1957a. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton UP.

_____. 1957b. Sound and Poetry. New York: Columbia UP.

Heaney, Seamus. 2006 (1966). Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber and Faber.

McGahern, John. 2002. That They May Face the Rising Sun. London: Faber and Faber.

O'Toole, Fintan. 2002. "There go the good times". The Irish Times. 28 December http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/

newsfeatures/2002/1228/2226333935WK28FINTAN.html [retrieved: 22/03/2007]

Please note that:

Surnames should not be written in block capitals in the works cited list, and that first names should be written in full.

When an author has published more than one work in the same year, small letters (a, b, c) follow the date of publication.

When the publication date of a first edition is given, it is placed in parentheses after the date of the edition used.

Material found on the Internet: If an article has been viewed or downloaded from an on-line journal, the name of the journal is written in italics, followed by its URL (no underlining or blue), and the date of access.

Endnotes:

Endnotes should be limited to authorial commentary that cannot be easily accommodated into the body of the text. They must not be used to make references that should appear in parenthetical documentation within the text.